Advocating for Wyoming’s Community Colleges

About WACCT

Who We AreThe Wyoming Association of Community College Trustees is a non-profit organization of community college governing boards, representing the 49 elected trustees who govern Wyoming’s 7 community colleges.

Our MissionThe mission of the Wyoming Association of Community College Trustees is to advocate a unified vision and voice on behalf of the seven Wyoming community college boards of trustees, in collaboration with their college presidents, to promote their mutual interests in continued quality, strength, vitality, leadership development and effectiveness of its member colleges.

Our VisionThe Wyoming Association of Community College Trustees will be the leading information source and advocate for Wyoming’s community colleges, shaping public policy that strengthens community college education, and providing trustee development to ensure effective governing boards

WACCT Board Officers

Ernie Over, CWC

President

Marilyn Fisher, EWC

Vice President

Don Erickson, LCCC

Treasurer

Carolyn Danko, NWC

Secretary

WACCT Staff

WACCT Executive Director – Erin Taylor

Erin Taylor, of Taylor Strategies & Consulting, LLC, Cheyenne, serves as the Executive Director of the Wyoming Association of Community College Trustees (WACCT). Erin has more than twenty years of experience working in the public policy arena at the federal, state and local level. Taylor earned an undergraduate in economics and her master of science in regulatory and environmental economics from the University of Wyoming. She is active in her community through Cheyenne Rotary and local service organizations.

Taylor received several prestigious awards and recognitions over the term of her career, including:

Graduate of Leadership Wyoming, 2006

Named one of Wyoming’s 40 Under 40, 2008.

U.S. Senate Leadership Summit for Young Professionals, 2006

U.S. Senate Women’s Leadership Summit, 2008.

Past president of the Wyoming Society for Association Executives

Graduate of the Institute of Organizational Management, a professional development program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2011

Appointed by Governor Matt Mead to the Wyoming Arts Council

Appointed by Governor Matt Mead to the Wyoming Lottery Corporation

2011 Participant in the American Council of Young Political Leaders exchange to Pakistan and India